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  1. Re:Age and the constitution on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    And emancipated minors can obtain all rights at an age younger than the general age of majority.

  2. Re:Took them long enough... on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    You're mostly right but NYC is pretty far down the list these days and has been dropping for over 2 decades, 2013 saw their rate at 4 homicides per 100.000 residents which puts it at about half of the estimated 7.6 per 100,000 average for the world and on par with Europe with 3.5 average.

  3. Re:Took them long enough... on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 2

    An armed citizenry is of no consequence, because the weapons controlled by the police+military are so much more powerful. It's like bringing a knife to a gunfight, but up a notch.

    Lol, you haven't been paying attention for the last decade, have you? People living in mud huts with a firearm ownership rate considerably lower than the US have stymied the biggest, most expensive military on the planet. That's when the fight is half the world away, where you can easily brainwash the soldiers into thinking of the opposition as evil, less than human creatures. An insurrection on domestic soil would be easily won by the citizenry.

  4. Re:Cost? on Linksys Resurrects WRT54G In a New Router · · Score: 1

    Netgear R6100, does 867Mbps on 5GHz for $99.

  5. Re:Cost? on Linksys Resurrects WRT54G In a New Router · · Score: 1

    $40 tablets at the dollar store often have a dual core processor these days and they have to include a battery and screen as well.

  6. Re:It's not cold if you have gear on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    I always put a pair of fleece PJ's in the car at the start of winter, put those under jeans or khaki's and you're good for as far as I'll ever try to walk in cold weather and I also have 4 space blankets in each vehicle in case we get stuck in a blizzard where we just need to stay put for a day or two (the second day would be miserable as they retain moisture so you'd be colder than the first day but it would keep you from freezing to death). The PJ's didn't cost me any extra as I just pulled one of my sets out of rotation and the space blankets were $6 for 10 on Amazon.

  7. Re:Painful cold on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, here in NE Ohio we're expecting lows about the same as we saw in 1994, while this is an unusual cold pattern it's not like it's unprecedented.

  8. What are they displaying this on? on Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    AFAIK to get 60fps at 4k using existing display connectors you need to use two DP or HDMI1.4 connections and MST, but with two connectors you just have enough bandwidth for 60fps so how are they doing 3D which would require another doubling of bandwidth and thus require 4 connectors? Are there 4k monitors with 4 inputs I'm not aware of?

  9. Re:Build-it-yourself on Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 · · Score: 1

    Ammo would be interesting, lead and brass casting are simple to do at small scale, the more difficult part would be smokeless powder which is a PITA to do and very dangerous. You could do black powder cartridges but that would rule out designs newer than about 1890.

  10. Re:Never again on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 1

    Well, his estate owns half the publishing rights by virtue of including his share of the ATV joint venture with Sony. The Lennon estate and McCartney still own the songwriters rights.

  11. Re:How is the Falcon Heavy assembled? on SpaceX Wins Use of NASA's Launch Pad 39A · · Score: 1

    Actually the crawler was bigger than either the Saturn V or the shuttle (6m lbs vs 5m gross for the Saturn V or 4.4m gross for the shuttle) =)

  12. Re:Minimal ghg impact on Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate · · Score: 1

    The only problem is that the investors getting burned by the reduction in corn ethanol production are extremely unlikely to invest in cellosic plants if they feel it's likely the government will pull the indirect and direct subsidies on a whim like they are planning to with corn ethanol. These are capital intensive efforts and if halfway into your payback period the government pulls the rug out from under you you're unlikely to invest in a similar setup.

  13. Re:There's already a $49 Kindle on Datawind Not Blowing Smoke: $38 Tablet Coming To the US · · Score: 1

    Yeah but that's an ebook reader, not a tablet.

  14. Re:Themostat on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Compared to traditional multizone monitoring solutions with installation? Yes, it's cheap.

  15. Re:Themostat on Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat · · Score: 1

    Meh, being able to have cheap multizone temp monitoring seems like a cool use of technology to me. Plus with Nest you can silence the alarm in the kitchen and it will silence all the rest of the smoke alarms in the house for a period of time which is cool.

  16. Re:If the fines were lower... on Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time · · Score: 2

    law enforcement should not be able to identify you

    Sure, LEO's absolutely have the ability to identify me, RLC's have zero to do with LEO's, they are private money making machines with the profits split with the municipalities. Basically they're the modern incarnation of the robber barons of the River Rhine, and when they receive too little income the companies pressure the municipalities into reducing the yellow time at the intersection which multiple studies have shown significantly reduces the safety at intersections where the cameras are installed, exactly the opposite of their stated purpose.

  17. Re:I don't think so... on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    I already do 9-6, if I didn't have kids 10-7 would be fine by me.

  18. Re:And the battery wear? on Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building · · Score: 1

    Actually, I wonder why datacenters don't do peak shaving using their UPS systems, lead acid batteries have essentially unlimited cycles and switching to battery power on a regular basis would be a better test of battery health than the stupid automated testing done by the charge controller. I guess peak power rates aren't granular enough for the fairly limited runtime most facilities have in their battery bank.

  19. Re:BRENNAN v. U. S. POSTAL SERVICE on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    The USPS only lost $1B because they were forced to save for retirees who haven't even been born yet! The USPS is completely self funding, they receive no money from the taxpayers other than the stipend that the members of congress receive for political mailings and whatever business they receive from the branches of government. But don't let facts stand in the way of your anti-government hatred.

  20. Re:This kills on-line businesses on Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery · · Score: 1

    Take a couple picture with your phone, turn it into a 3D model, print the model, use the plastic model to create a mold, cast a near perfect copy of the key.

  21. Re:Ten Commandments are "overtly Christian"? on Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments · · Score: 2

    Came here to say the exact same thing, though I was going to go with Abrahamic =)

  22. Re:802.11ac on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking it's a company in the media realm and I can tell you our marketing department is the only place other than the datacenter or the network core where we've considered 10Gb due to the size of files they deal with. 802.11ac will end up below 100Mbps for a crowded office which is just going to suck when dealing with multi-hundred MB PSD files of worse video.

  23. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    I do use triple headed monitors for day to day admin, but I can do a hell of a lot with my smartphone, just the other day I rebooted an entire non-production application stack from my phone while we were at lunch =)

  24. Re:make my day... on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    Considering a full Solidworks license costs about 80% of the salary of an engineer I don't think it's being used too much in outsourced positions, the productivity hit would make the licensing dwarf the salary savings.

  25. Re:Pros vs Cons on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Actually in the law enforcement community they're always called less lethal and always have been, only uninformed idiots (sadly often including 'journalists') call them non-lethal.